On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 11:50 AM Henry Rich <henryhr...@gmail.com> wrote: > FYI: L. by itself is usually a mistake. It recurs through all boxing to > the bitter end. Better to use (0 < L.) which allows early exit.
Hmm... at least on 64 bit architectures, it seems like L. would frequently be worth caching (might need a "don't know yet value" for some operations), especially when it's small. That said, I don't know enough about header field use patterns to say where this could best fit. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm